Architecture

Closed at the pub - or the contemporary failure of socio-cultural amenities

LITORAL60.

The current shape of the Romanian seaside was materialized after a particularly ambitious project started in the mid-1950s, the first architectural expressions with a different aesthetic began to appear at the end of the same decade. The extensive team led by Cezar Lăzărescu (the newpeople1, as he referred to them in an early monograph of events), created a utopian scenography that corresponded to the socialist ideals of the period in a country in full development1.
Tourism, identified as a response to the essential needs2 of the human being (evolved man with spiritual concerns, in addition to those of the working class), gained an extraordinary impetus in the 1960s - the local case is not unique, as there are precedents in other countries in Eastern Europe, and even in the West. In the case of the coastline, specific architectural programs, based on an internationalapproach3 to functional solutions

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